I am an international business & regulatory adviser with private practice and government experience. I have worked in leading law firms in Washington, D.C., New York, Brussels, Toronto and for the OECD in Paris and am admitted to practice in Ontario & New York.My specialties: Competition / Antitrust policy, International trade law & Investment law, Corporate Governance, Compliance & Regulatory Matters. I have significant experience in:• Engaging with government agencies in civil and criminal investigations / cases• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating commercial, licensing, distribution and IP agreements• Advising on sanctions, anti-corruption, corporate social responsibility and export controls• Providing education, technical assistance, legislative drafting and policy advice• Document reviewI have provided legal and policy advice to various international institutions and senior government officials in Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South America and Central & Eastern Europe. I advise natural resource clients as a colleague at Pilot Law LLP and FinTech and Financial Services clients as a Director of Atlantis International.My academic experience includes a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Baltimore School of Law and serving as Assistant Director of its Center of International & Comparative Law; part-time teaching positions at the University of Leiden Law School, the World Trade Institute, the International Institute for Management in Telecommunications, the Howard University Summer program at the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town), the International Law Institute African Centre for Legal Excellence and Addis Ababa University Faculty of Business and Economics and appointments as Visiting Fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School and Executive Fellow at the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation at the University of Toronto.I am a regular panelist on the CBC Weekend Business Panel and am frequently quoted in Canadian and international media on international trade and business law developments.I am proficient in English and French.
Listed skills include Corporate Governance, Competition Law, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, and 10 others.
